Scoping and functions in R 2.11.1 : What's going wrong?

Question

This question comes from a range of other questions that all deal with essentially the same problem. For some strange reason, using a function within another function someti

Answer 1

Well there is no problem in what you posted:

/tmp$ cat joris.r 
#!/usr/bin/r -t

some_function <- function(y) y^2

ff <- function(x){
    y <- 4
    some_function(y)  # so we expect 16
}
print(ff(3))          # 3 is ignored
$ ./joris.r 
[1] 16
/tmp$

Could you restate and postan actual bug or misfeature?